Taylan Kammer

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2024-09-01 18:24:13 GMT

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2024-08-28 11:42:12 GMT

I wish I personally knew someone who's into the ad biz, with knowledge about header bidding and Google Ad Exchange and all.
I've no idea whether the companies I'm working with to put ads on bg3wiki are perhaps ripping me off.

2024-08-27 01:13:01 GMT

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@npub1dzx…ea5g Your literal leader killed himself.

2024-08-26 08:02:38 GMT

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@npub1dzx…ea5g
LOL, nice meme.
> nazi
Kill yourself though.

2024-08-24 22:59:03 GMT

Another great video from Sabine. Really enjoyed this one greatly, and lost it at the line "maybe there was coke of another sort involved." :blobcatjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kibFAk8HwS4

2024-08-24 07:13:22 GMT

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@npub1wc2…4sk7 @npub17eh…94rr
OK creep.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/b9b59c43f81c1f93ca61a49b310a8db1aac1bd1f104d2992897e3199ff237101.jpg

2024-08-14 00:00:31 GMT

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@npub1vph…5dr3 I don't think transmen competing against men is seen as a problem by most people anyway?

2024-08-12 21:37:29 GMT

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@npub1en8…anvd y tho

2024-08-07 11:38:45 GMT

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@npub1c4s…aqv4
White walls with no decoration but a lot of scratch marks and this is what the guy looks like.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/7fd4475c2c0ff57da5000c8c137462d57e1aaf4f1c2f9d3785970939eb3be5be.jpg

2024-08-06 11:40:06 GMT

Can all those people who are so sure they can spot a man/woman easily from looks tell me whether they see a woman or a man here?
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/95f102964d0a26946c645442e448559a57984182f5db57c967fb221c686aed06.jpg

2024-08-06 11:21:13 GMT

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@npub1rdy…33dl I think it's because oddballs of all types, right or left, love cats, since cats are also oddballs.

2024-08-03 20:18:19 GMT

Since everyone is raging about the Olympics, here's something much fewer people are talking about.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/a643e7b37acfc3e9bda9d0e1ec1a50192d888152d511129fcc79a70318af0efb.png

2024-08-03 20:12:59 GMT

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@npub18cw…ha8a
Found a free copy of the full case study here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028208009588
No intervention after the embryo transfer from what I can tell. She just had a normal pregnancy, like any other woman who receives an embryo transfer. Had a cesarean though.

2024-08-03 19:50:28 GMT

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@npub18cw…ha8a Yea and then her body developed that embryo into a human being over the course of 9 months. Don't think men's bodies can do that.

2024-08-02 21:59:08 GMT

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@npub1pqp…e753 Did you hear about that factoid where the one most important factor deciding how heavy a sentencing will be is "how long ago did the judge have a meal"?

2024-08-01 21:49:56 GMT

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@npub1vwr…fnzd this song be bussin... where it from again? feels like an old platformer, like Jazz Jack Rabbit.

2024-08-01 21:41:44 GMT

If you believe "no man has a vagina" and you also believe "everyone with XY chromosomes is a man" then you are directly contradicting yourself.
There are people with XY chromosomes who are born with a vagina.
If this makes you irrationally angry, get that sorted out. It's deeply frustrating when you try to have a conversation with someone and they get angry because they can't deal with complexities of the real world being pointed out to them. Everything has to fit some narrow abstraction of reality that they've constructed in their minds.

2024-08-01 11:21:40 GMT

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By the way, Rwanda is almost completely Christian. I bet there's a ton of people out there blaming this on "Islam" because they jump to the assumption that he must have attacked a Taylor Swift dance school because of the "Muslim men hate white women enjoying freedom" trope.

2024-07-31 20:47:07 GMT

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2024-07-24 07:31:58 GMT

Check out "Andrea Dworkin Online Library"
They finally published it and didn't even tell me... I made dis.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.feministwiki.adol

2024-07-17 11:51:13 GMT

Someone teach me how to make a SUPER basic balance sheet...
The company literally just has a small number of money in a bank account and no material possession. The balance sheet probably just needs to have one line or something, but I can't find any good info on how to do it because all the guides assume a hundred times more complicated stuff and use a bunch of terms I don't understand. :blobcatjoy:

2024-07-12 12:05:49 GMT

Most normal bae.st account.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/1c22b890223e9ea48bc68f398967158c47101dd227f47905b08edbd4a9f679b8.png

2024-07-11 10:37:25 GMT

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@npub1rdy…33dl Gosh, I feel like watching anime again. Just some cute wholesome stuff. But the anime fandom tho. :blobcatsob:

2024-07-11 10:36:23 GMT

I just heard of the term "poly aroace demisexual dating" and when you think about it, this is literally another way of saying "hanging out with friends."

2024-07-10 18:57:50 GMT

Guys, you won't believe this. Islamic scholars from the 13th century knew about Blanchard's typology.
"The first [type] is the one in whom [feminine traits] are innate, he did not put them on by himself, and therein is no guilt, no blame and no shame."
"The second type acts like a woman out of immortal purposes and he is the sinner and blameworthy."
:blobcatjoy:
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/13899621f56ff67d57a3b5de1c4650023f96ca337cf4991a5e59c075742c05b2.jpg

2024-07-10 09:49:18 GMT

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@npub1x2v…ar98 Got hooked many years ago and now it's difficult to switch. 😩
I'll probably start using a self-hosted mail server at some point. Could use [email protected] too (already exists, hosted by me) but that's no good for professional correspondence where you wanna keep politics out of it...

2024-07-07 17:42:49 GMT

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@npub1vwr…fnzd I hope it's not hurt? Why is it hanging out so chill in your room? :blobcateyes:

2024-07-03 19:32:46 GMT

I don't want to get angry or feel hatred, but men who say that a woman should "suck cock" for fighting for human rights are fucking ghouls and I can't stand them.
I could maybe ignore it if it was random retarded trolling where the person posting it seems somewhat self-aware of how idiotic their trolling is. But no, it comes from some dude who posters as a "progressive" sensitive boy. The hypocrisy makes it all the more enraging.

2024-07-03 18:28:36 GMT

Ages ago, I created an Android developer account for the FeministWiki, but never ended up using it.
Google is forcing me to publish an Android app with the account, or else they'll delete it.
I decided to make a trivial app called the Andrea Dworkin Online Library(*) which simply contains all her books that can be found freely in PDF format. It will literally just be a PDF reader app with those PDFs included in the app file.
(*) Inspired by this website, which is where I first discovered Dworkin: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/dworkin/

2024-07-01 05:38:20 GMT

How I apologize to my gf after a small mistake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XspDkqEtWFE

2024-06-30 02:43:24 GMT

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@npub15xt…ywcn Mitsu it's not even July. :blobcateyes:

2024-06-27 02:48:53 GMT

Disclaimer: I'm Turkish. (Coz I know some are gonna say I'm racist.)
Today I learned that there were 111 gang rapes in Berlin in 2023, and 54% of 106 suspects under investigation are not German citizens.
The biggest demographic of non-Germans living in Germany right now are Ukrainian refugees if I'm not mistaken, followed by Syrian refugees.
Wish I knew more details.

2024-06-25 02:35:37 GMT

They freed Julian Assange wow.

2024-06-24 00:47:52 GMT

I'm amazed by the existence of languages that are alive and kicking and yet cannot be translated accurately by digital tools and don't have plentiful online resources to learn them.
Romanes is one of these, and I've just realized that Cebuano is similar. Though Cebuano at least exists in the list of languages that Google Translate officially supports, and there's some online resources, just not as plentiful as say Tagalog.

2024-06-22 17:05:07 GMT

Wow, WTF, I have an email address like [email protected] that's eons old and somehow it's automatically the same address as [email protected] and I've no idea since when Google did this or whether it was me somehow.
I've only noticed it because I signed in with my Google account on some website and the website registered my email address as "[email protected]" but I did receive an email from them. And indeed I can log in to Google as "johndoe" instead of "john.doe" and it works just fine and logs me in to the same account.

2024-06-22 00:41:07 GMT

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@npub1vph…5dr3 Lazada is kinda like the eBay of Southeast Asia apparently.

2024-06-22 00:27:02 GMT

I don't understand. Is this some kind of scam? This is less than 40 Euro.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/c132419b25b5e5b042875d180ab46c82dcf50914ffa64c39f297e28a97d12a74.jpg

2024-06-19 14:59:58 GMT

@npub1x2v…ar98 Do you have recommendations on how to best make money with free software? Particularly in Europe / Germany or fully remote?
I'm kinda sick of writing crappy proprietary software but I need money.

2024-06-17 02:47:15 GMT

Regarding men like Dylan Mulvaney performing misogynistic stereotypes of "girlhood" and saying it makes them a woman.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/457eea436480e63304abd867bf81b9dcdde1ae3cf93e808b50421f9cefa7152b.jpg

2024-06-09 00:43:35 GMT

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@npub1vph…5dr3 My nostalgic ass wants to slag you off for saying bg3 is better than 2. :blobcatjoy:

2024-06-06 17:47:39 GMT

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@npub1nv0…skkw It's relatively easy to set up with Apache or Nginx, but I guess you need to at least know the basics of their config syntax. I guess you're thinking of something that requires no config file fiddling at all?

2024-06-05 13:16:02 GMT

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@npub1h7p…5z7j
> I worked with a conservative woman for years and I provided a never-ending stream of carefully curated radical feminist rhetoric to slowly radicalize her.
Hey I think your phone is ringing.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/be5e29b4b6b1a14ef89d3dcb65703956edcbf9f6ae64ab3200e1fda06f4de57f.jpg

2024-06-05 10:58:26 GMT

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@npub1h7p…5z7j Not to be a joykill but what if she's just a big old conservative instead? :politecat:

2024-06-04 08:25:58 GMT

This is how I'm responding from now on when someone asks the question "do you not believe trans people exist" or accuses someone of "denying the existence of trans people."
You're welcome.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/5a4c37bdfe23cbef8840787765e0f05f590e0eac08b0e7264d42a6639ef1ab3d.jpg
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/e6fdb84c24474d2da713ae2b95b49171e6fd55788a139c13d13bba9e7be80f7b.jpg

2024-06-02 21:43:39 GMT

Based.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/45a0042f085d6a47e28244c4041c99a43d0235f14dc3323184f70a7e0366812d.png

2024-06-01 16:55:11 GMT

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@npub1lws…4fd5 Ew. No.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/fc025ae8f99adf7d28136b444e3ce4ea781e3868f13e0e6798152ff93e9c4d91.png

2024-05-31 16:00:23 GMT

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@npub1x2v…ar98 @npub1qh0…xeda
What drugs are you two taking.

2024-05-31 01:17:54 GMT

I've made a huge mistake. Bought 1 kg of soy protein powder thinking it can't be that bad, and it tastes like ass.
Guess I'll just have to use it in small amounts slowly over time, like to "stretch" some other protein powder that tastes better.
I had used pea protein powder before and it wasn't so bad. I guess raw soy just tastes terrible.

2024-05-28 20:21:51 GMT

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@npub1uxm…ujtm What happened? :blobcatthinkOwO:

2024-05-27 17:19:55 GMT

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2024-05-26 22:49:22 GMT

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@npub1vwr…fnzd
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2024-05-25 12:43:45 GMT

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2024-05-25 12:39:29 GMT

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2024-05-25 12:33:08 GMT

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2024-05-23 22:32:57 GMT

I can't believe she actually did this. :blobcatjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cox7481IE6o

2024-05-19 20:18:11 GMT

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@npub1k0h…xygc @npub1uxm…ujtm
> as long as the pfp isn't [trans] flag colours
You'd be surprised.

2024-05-19 19:57:11 GMT

The authentic Fediverse experience is when you follow someone with a cute anime pfp because they seem kinda wholesome and two days later they post something that makes you realize they're a pedophile.

2024-05-16 23:44:15 GMT

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@npub1vph…5dr3
Incel test be like:
1. Do you want to have sex?
2. Did you ever have sex?
3. That was it, results are in.

2024-05-16 00:31:48 GMT

I've decided to be more schizophrenic going forth.

2024-05-15 17:47:25 GMT

Does anyone know which mental disorder @p has? It's kinda fascinating, though it makes him unbearable to talk to.

2024-05-15 10:09:46 GMT

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@npub1qh0…xeda Whoa, how can one obtain this data? I wanna know what it predicted for me. :blobcatjoy:

2024-05-14 08:23:41 GMT

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@npub100h…vrhj
I know who Debbie Hayton is. A certain section of the GC movement seems to love hating on him for no good reason. People who became actually transphobic, I guess. Goes along with calling people "tranny".

2024-05-14 07:02:40 GMT

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@npub100h…vrhj
Humans can have lots of feelings or desires that are unethical but don't constitute a mental disorder.
I think 50 year old men finding 16 year old girls to be physically attractive is probably quite common. :cringingcat:

2024-05-12 20:06:55 GMT

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@npub1uxk…z97c
I wanna eat her. :blobcataww:

2024-05-12 10:25:36 GMT

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@npub1x2v…ar98 @npub1jag…dspp
> getting blocked by a poastie
Please teach me how to achieve such a power level.

2024-05-11 00:07:51 GMT

I didn't use to believe in angels... Then I met my girlfriend. :blobcatangel:
Yes, I just said that. Completely without irony. Deal with it.

2024-05-10 23:48:44 GMT

People with a #FeministWiki account can now log in here:
https://fedi.feministwiki.org/
Just had to find and fix a bug in the LDAP module of #Pleroma to make it work. :blobcatcool:
Usernames are [email protected].
I could have gone with something modern like [email protected] but it would have caused some hassle and deviate from the email addresses offered by FeministWiki.

2024-05-08 17:38:42 GMT

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@npub19yp…jgqr Do you have a link to the report that claims this? I'm pretty sure China and India are investing big time in nuclear, especially China. France too IIRC.

2024-05-08 14:31:18 GMT

I'm thinking of finally setting up a Fedi node for FeministWiki. What domain name should it use?
I'm thinking something shorter than "feministwiki.org" since a short and snappy fedi domain seems neater.
Options include:
- feminism.wiki
- feminist.wiki
- fem.wiki
Or potentially one of these with a prefix like "pl." in front to mean "Pleroma" although that may be confused for "Polish".
Or maybe it should just be "feministwiki.org" after all? :blobcatthonking:

2024-05-08 13:00:33 GMT

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@npub1vph…5dr3 You mean my Fediverse node? 5.90 Euro a month, lol. And server load is like below 1%. :blobcatjoy:
I'll probably move it to the same server as the bg3 wiki to save some money.

2024-05-08 12:36:06 GMT

I wanna write a blog post about how cloud shit is a scam but there's really not much more to say than just that.
The entire Baldur's Gate 3 wiki is hosted on a 50 EUR / month server from Hetzner.
This is a website that serves millions of people, appearing on top of Google results for searches queries about the video game of the year 2023.
50 Euro. Per month.
The server load doesn't even reach 20% most of the time.

2024-05-05 16:00:41 GMT

What do people here think about a 30 year old man dating a 22 year old woman? Is that bad even if he's a kind and considerate person and they love each other?

2024-05-05 11:15:05 GMT

anyone else caught up on that bear vs. man meme?
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/2a03161cec6da82e014733d71137eb8a9eb422206b3500d4973146fbdf7a3232.png

2024-05-04 17:54:53 GMT

This guy gives me "I've beaten the shit out of my gay son until he decided he's actually a girl" vibes but I really hope I'm wrong.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/b83e2629888663fdac6cfe608f1bb3b4f0563bfd380d5c79313f08d823ca469b.jpg
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/d1f3297dacd0b252898a92e29f633bbe666364b86880fa08a78ca53d181854dc.jpg
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2024-05-04 17:05:06 GMT

*sigh*
Why can't Turkish people make steak properly.
It's literally well done. Aka ruined. :blobcatcry:

2024-05-01 22:22:33 GMT

No comment needed.
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2024-04-28 17:58:59 GMT

Have you guys seen this? Hilarious short movie about two MtF friends, and one of them has a boyfriend who comes out to be a raging AGP. (It's obvious from the start so I'm not really spoiling anything.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Tp-zSjiD0

2024-04-27 11:28:26 GMT

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@npub100h…vrhj
:blobcatjoy:
Not sure how to feel about this hahaha

2024-04-26 10:51:27 GMT

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2024-04-24 10:10:22 GMT

> log in to website
> "sorry, your session has timed out"
OK then.
I was on the login screen for a while, maybe they started the session before I was actually logged in, LOL.
German government website, of course.

2024-04-20 13:38:37 GMT

Would this be too weird as a job application photo? I just don't have many photos that would be appropriate for a job application LOL.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/0f6ac39d89c394850a4d11ca5fa5020407c829a625b486392d308a9faec01dfc.JPG

2024-04-20 08:04:47 GMT

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@npub100h…vrhj
Just normal people having a completely normal conversation, nothing to see there. :blobcatfearful:

2024-04-18 20:47:52 GMT

Is anyone here a GC person who's into wiki editing / a Wikipedia editor?
It seems there's another push over there for some kind of policy that may lead to even stronger censorship of feminist/GC editors, and someone's contacted me asking if I could help find more editors who aren't ok with this so they can collectively voice their concerns.

2024-04-17 13:00:46 GMT

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@npub15xt…ywcn
You are under 5 foot. :blobcatangery:

2024-04-16 12:16:06 GMT

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@npub100h…vrhj
My aunt is a TERF. :blobcatcool: :blobcathearteyes:

2024-04-10 22:04:52 GMT

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@npub19zq…u4m5 Yes you even have bronouns in bio. :blobcatanimeeyes:

2024-04-08 04:28:54 GMT

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2024-04-03 10:01:42 GMT

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@npub100h…vrhj
I thought we had Pride Month in June for this?
Did some corporation need better PR so they invented another LGBTQ+ celebration month? :blobcat3c:

2024-03-29 23:22:47 GMT

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@npub1ehv…d4gl No idea, but as far as I understood it doesn't require you to use it for the exploit to work.

2024-03-29 22:26:50 GMT

HOLY SHIT: Upstream liblzma/xz tarballs were compromised, enabling SSH backdoor... Haven't read the details yet but this seems crazy.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

2024-03-27 12:11:31 GMT

This is why I'm impervious to psychos.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/c0d7282a06cc607c305677e62a69d290d254861bc23567260d8f5a7685ff555a.jpg

2024-03-21 18:07:44 GMT

More people need to understand that "transgender woman" doesn't only refer to people such as in the first picture. It also refers to people such as in the second picture.
First picture was the first result for "transwoman" on an image search.
Second picture shows the "transgender woman" in question who was complained about by a woman going to Planet Fitness. Her membership was terminated after she complained about him shaving his beard in the women's room.
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/ace083e9320e6372265d49fc895a73481bea98d4d6d4c942cc5b4543cbf7586e.jpg
https://pl.tkammer.de/media/b76a3966256c7fe0776bb531810b03d0d7a27f481ed01ff23b16253db55d8111.jpeg

2024-03-21 10:10:02 GMT

r/ActualLesbians be like...
:blobcatjoy:
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2024-03-21 07:43:36 GMT

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@npub17eh…94rr why they forkin'? :blobcateyes:

2024-03-20 06:49:34 GMT

Hadn't heard about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_DxS6ioOQ
Video doesn't provide a source for the claim unfortunately, but it seems to be this thing:
https://unherd.com/breaking_news/a-14-year-old-canadian-walks-into-a-gender-clinic/
The original story is in French I guess.

2024-03-17 18:44:04 GMT

LMAOOOO I just learned that PhilosophyTube has voice-acted a minor character in Baldur's Gate 3.
https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Nocturne
Totally missed that this character was supposed to be trans. I was confused as to why there's not a single trans character in the game when it's otherwise very "woke" as they say.

2024-03-15 03:53:04 GMT

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@npub135j…vj4p @npub1sa2…jgrv @npub1et3…0a7n
> Who votes for game of the year in the games awards? Journos, not the public in general. IIRC the public voting stuff are a mere %
So you're telling me it was not just the coomer public but even the journos themselves who voted for a game whose promo material made people think it's a fetish porn sim? Thank you for further strengthening my argument.
> This is the weirdest fucking argument. BG3 got popular by being an actually good game for once as far as I'm aware
The fanbase is EXTREMELY sex obsessed and they heavily leaned into this during marketing. They had a promo video where the buff himbo guy literally shapeshifts into a bear to have sex with the vampire twink. People are doing sex% speedruns. They have motion capped sex scenes. You can have an incest threesome with a pair of twin prostitutes. BG3 is coomer paradise.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great game. (I'm the founder of the BG3 wiki, which I started during Early Access.) But half of the viral popularity is from the sexual content, and it's extremely obvious that they made sure to have super sexy female main characters because many of the fans wouldn't like it any other way.
Shadowheart is the typical innocent (brainwashed by an evil cult) coy / tsundere fair lady, and Karlach is the oomph sexy "child bearing hips" momma. And I guess Minthara is the dominatrix or something. Don't ask me about Lae'zel; I guess some people are frogsexual. :cate:
I wouldn't even necessarily say the game has *bad* female representation per se, but the appeal to straight men is extremely obvious. They just justify it by adding tons of fan service for women and gay men as well, and I guess giving the female characters some actual personality even if they're partly designed to fulfill male fantasies.
TL;DR: You can *try* to go fully feminist (or "woke") and only have female characters who aren't sexualised, but your game won't be nearly as popular. Neither with the public, nor within the journalism part of the video game industry. The industry knows this very well, and is usually trying to balance things so they can appease both camps, like BG3 managed to.
> > Aloy looks like a 100% normal natural-looking female human being
> No she does not
Yes she fucking does and you need to take your pills.
> Are you seriously implying that the western industry as it is right now caters to coomers????? Are you freaking serious?
Yes. [insert gigachad]
> They have so little power that currently they're about to trigger gamergate 2.0 for what amounts of a small DEI creative consulting group, that has also consulted for massive AAA games
And yet they appease coomers most of the time. In part because even these SJW groups consist 50% of coomers themselves.
Grand TL;DR before I quit the thread:
The so called "feminist" conspiracy ruining muh vidya gamez is really mostly just faux progressives hooked on queer theory (that's a whole other can of worms I haven't really touched on here), half of them are coomers themselves, and they barely manage to make some female characters less extremely sexualised. You think they're turning all women in video games into egregiously ugly monstrosities because you're wearing ultra-coomer goggles that make you lose your mind when you see a female video game character who doesn't look like a literal sex doll. The fact that you think Aloy looks "unnatural," or super ugly somehow, is proof positive that you need to touch grass and take your pills.
Good night.

2024-03-15 01:44:11 GMT

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> Olympics lifters or competitive weightlifters are extremely abnormal
And I wasn't suggesting them as examples of normal women. I was saying you'd probably faint if you saw a real woman who's actually extremely muscular, which Aloy from Horizon is far from.
Aloy looks completely normal even in the cutscene you shared, which is a cherry-picked unflattering one. Attached are 4 pics that I assume are also in-game scenes showing her from more neutral perspective. If you think this is egregiously ugly character design, then you just have coomer goggles on.
And I'm not even touching any of the promo material / alternative designs / etc. of her.
> No it doesn't, we already went through this, there's several industries, journos, media, etc. to push this nonsense.
And yet BG3 won game of the year, in part by appealing to coomers. All those shady conspiracies to make female characters "ugly" and yet the entire industry is swooning over a game that made them extremely sexy and specifically used that for marketing. (Just balancing it out by including an equal amount of straight female / gay male fan service, so they can keep up their faux-progressive image.)
> The industry and ideology is currently entirely cynical and mostly goes against nature
Kawaii uguu anime girls aren't nature, mate. Aloy looks like a 100% normal natural-looking female human being.
> and what most of the players actually want
Most of the players are coomers, is my whole point. The studios have a choice between pandering to coomers and pandering to wokies and they do what they think will make them the most money. Simple as.
> You're literally currently cheerleading the popular bourgeois ideology, the ideology which is currently extremely hostile to anything not adhering to it
You're not even hearing my argument. Yes there are people who want to make representation of female characters in media ever so slightly less sexually objectified. Call that an evil feminazi conspiracy if you want, or call it the popular bourgeois ideology.
My point is that seeing them as evil powerful shady overlords ruining video games is completely stupid, given how little power they actually have. A studio decides to make a female character that merely looks *normal* instead of a CGI sex doll, and they get dragged through the fucking mud for it.
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2024-03-12 02:22:25 GMT

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@npub1vph…5dr3 If they called them "Stormcloaks" though, could that mean the developers themselves basically wanted to make them fantasy Nazis?
Wouldn't surprise me if they just, I dunno, didn't put enough thought into it and basically were like "lol let's make a faction that are like Nazis" and then unintentionally made them relatable or something.
Never played any Elder Scrolls.

2024-03-11 15:01:41 GMT

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Yeah, I host my own email server and set it all up in my free time, so I don't buy it that it's too complicated for a *government* to do, lol.